New research center to accelerate ocean conservation
https://www.miragenews.com/new-research-centre-to-accelerate-ocean-902786/
Minderoo Foundation is working with global partners including Illumina, the largest sequencing company in the world, as well as CSIRO and UWA, to adapt the most advanced sequencing technologies to ocean conservation.
Fisherman threaten legal action to stop marine conservation plan
Angry fishermen have threatened the Government with legal action over a sweeping marine conservation strategy they said was hatched in secret.
Eco warrior, Paul Watson returns to the seas
Canadian-American eco-warrior Paul Watson, ousted from the Sea Shepherd conservationist organization he founded, says he is back in business with a new ship and crew and is ready to resume tormenting the world’s whalers and others he sees as despoilers of the world’s oceans.
US Ocean climate action plan must include increased measures to address I fishing and associated human rights abuses at sea
Alongside leading environmental, human and labor rights organizations, Human Rights at Sea has added its support for the need to include measures to address illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing and forced labor in seafood supply chains in the development of a U.S. Ocean Climate Action Plan (OCAP).
From mussels to meadows, the sea offers big lessons for life
In the Tuscan Archipelago, the seagrass meadows capture carbon up to 35 times faster than tropical rainforests.